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LONGFELLOW  MEMORIAL 
ASSOCIATION 

1882-1922 

AN  HISTORICAL  SKETCH 

BY 

WINTHROP  S.   SCUDDER 


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PRINTED  BY  THE  ASSOCIATION 

CAMBRIDGE,  MASSACHUSETTS 

1922 


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THE 

LONGFELLOW  MEMORIAL 

ASSOCIATION 

1882-1922 

AN  HISTORICAL  SKETCH 

BY 

WINTHROP  S.   SCUDDER 


PRINTED  BY  THE  ASSOCIATION 

CAMBRIDGE,  MASSACHUSETTS 

1922 


First  printed  in  the  Boston  Sunday  Herald 
of  September  3,  1922 


THE  COSMOS  PRESS,  INC.,  CAMBRIDGE,  MASS. 


Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow 

was  born  in 

Portland^  Maine,  February  ^7,  i8oy. 

Died  in 

Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 

March  24, 1882. 


AN  HISTORICAL  SKETCH 

BY 

WINTHROP  S.  SCUDDER 

THE  Longfellow  Memorial  Associa- 
tion having  accomplished  its  purpose, 
voted  to  dissolve  at  a  final  meeting  held  in 
1922  at  the  house  of  its  President,  Dr. 
Charles  W.  Eliot.  It  was  then  decided  that 
this  fact  be  published,  together  with  a  short 
sketch  of  the  Association  and  its  work;  and 
the  present  writer  was  asked  by  the  President 
to  prepare  such  a  sketch. 

The  idea  of  an  Association  for  the  purpose 
of  providing  a  Memorial  to  Henry  Wads- 
worth  Longfellow  was  first  given  public  ex- 
pression a  few  days  after  the  death  of  the 
poet,  in  a  letter  published  in  a  Boston  news- 
paper of  March  30,  1882.  Five  days  later,  on 
April  4,  a  meeting  was  held  to  consider  the 
formation  of  such  an  organization  at  the 
house  of  Arthur  Oilman,  5  Waterhouse  Street, 
Cambridge. 


The  following  gentlemen  were  present: 

Hon.  James  A.  Fox,  Mayor 

Charles  Deane 

Epes  Sargent  Dixwell 

Arthur  Gilman 

Francis  B.  Gilman 

Professor  Asa  Gray 

Rev.  Dr.  George  Zabriskie  Gray 

Rev.  Dr.  Frederick  H.  Hedge 

Hon.  Henry  O.  Houghton 

Professor  J.  Laurence  Laughlin 

Rev.  Dr.  Alexander  McKenzie 

Professor  Charles  Eliot  Norton 

Horace  E.  Scudder 

Henry  Van  Brunt 

Benjamin  Vaughan 

Dr.  Henry  P.  Walcott 

Justin  Winsor 

Dr.  Morrill  Wyman 

Five  others  who  could  not  be  present  ex- 
pressed by  letter  their  cordial  interest: 

Isaac  W.  Danforth 
Professor  Ephraim  W.  Gurney 
Col.  Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson 
Professor  Eben  N.  Horsford 
Professor  James  B.  Thayer 

Of  these  eminent  men,  Dr.  Henry  P.  Wal- 
cott, is  the  only  one  who  was  also  present  at 

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the  last  meeting  of  the  Association,  when  it 
was  voted  out  of  existence. 

Other  meetings  were  held;  and  the  Associa- 
tion was  incorporated  May  23,  1882,  and 
organized  June  7,  when  it  was  voted  that 
annual  meetings  should  be  held  on  Longfel- 
low's birthday,  February  27.  The  following 
officers  were  elected: 

James  Russell  Lowell,  President 

Charles  Deane 

Charles  W.  Eliot 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes         I^  Vice  Presidents 

William  Dean  Howells 

John  Greenleaf  Whittier 

Arthur  Oilman,  Secretary 
John  Bartlett,  Treasurer 

Mr.  Lowell  who  was  abroad  accepted  his 
office  by  cable. 

In  reading  through  the  reports  of  the  Secre- 
taries through  the  years  of  the  existence  of  the 
Association,  one  is  deeply  impressed  with  the 
dignity  of  its  active  membership,  always 
limited  to  one  hundred.  It  included  the  names 
of  representative  men  in  business,  in  litera- 
ture, and  in  the  other  professions. 

There  have  been  three  presidents  of  the 
Association, —  James  Russell  Lowell,  Charles 

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Eliot  Norton,  and  Charles  W.  Eliot;  two 
Secretaries,  Arthur  Oilman,  unremitting  in 
his  interest  till  his  death,  and  Judge  Robert 
Walcott  who  has  faithfully  served  the  Asso- 
ciation since  1909;  and  three  treasurers,  John 
Bartlett  able  to  serve  but  one  year;  Benjamin 
Vaughan  who  carried  the  Association  through 
the  active  period  of  its  financial  existence,  and 
Edmund  M.  Parker  who  brought  its  affairs  to 
a  successful  conclusion. 

Even  before  the  Association  was  organized, 
at  one  of  the  preliminary  meetings,  that  of 
April  14,  a  report  was  read  which  contained 
the  following  recommendations: 

"the  erection  under  the  direction  of  a  competent 
committee,  of  a  monument  upon  the  lot  of  land 
opposite  the  late  residence  of  Mr.  Longfellow, 
including  a  portrait  statue  protected  by  an  archi- 
tectural canopy  or  other  protection,  and  the  lay- 
ing out  of  the  lot  as  a  public  park,  to  be  surren- 
dered to  the  City  of  Cambridge  to  be  kept  open  for- 
ever, when  the  City  is  ready  to  accept  the  trust." 

In  order  to  take  advantage  of  the  general 
and  widespread  interest  in  Longfellow  the 
Association  gave  school  children  the  oppor- 
tunity to  contribute  each  a  dime,  in  return 
for  which  each  child  should  receive  a  fac- 
simile of  a  bit  of  Longfellow's  manuscript  and 

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• 

a  picture  of  his  home;  adults  could  become 
honorary  members  by  subscribing  one  dollar, 
receiving  an  engraved  certificate.  From  this 
method,  unfortunately,  an  impression  went 
out  that  large  amounts  were  not  desired,  and 
in  consequence,  many  persons  who  were 
ready  to  make  larger  subscriptions  desisted, 
fearing  to  appear  ostentatious. 

Thousands  of  children  and  many  adults 
from  coast  to  coast  subscribed;  but  the  net 
result  of  even  thousands  of  such  small  sub- 
scriptions could  not  produce  an  adequate 
sum.  Therefore,  eventually,  larger  subscrip- 
tions were  asked  for,  and  were  received  from 
a  large  number  of  persons  widely  distributed 
geographically. 

A  natural  expression  of  the  general  interest 
felt  was  shown  by  three  authors'  readings 
which  brought  in  a  considerable  sum  of 
money  and  gave  a  vivid  picture  of  a  vanished 
society.  These  were  notable  events.  The 
first  reading  was  suggested  and  planned  by 
William  Dean  Howells  in  1887;  and  to  quote 
from  the  Secretary's  report  of  that  year  was: 

"made  very  successful  by  the  efforts  of  Mrs. 
James  T.  Fields  and  other  ladies  of  Boston,  sup- 
plemented by  the  generosity  of  Moses  Kimball, 


the  proprietor  of  the  Boston  Museum.  The  occa- 
sion was  extraordinary.  The  Museum  was 
crowded  with  persons  who  paid  Hberally  for  ad- 
mission. Large  numbers  of  them  were  unable  even 
to  get  seats;  and  for  several  hours  they  listened 
breathlessly  to  the  reading  of  authors  who  were 
seated  as  in  a  drawing-room  on  the  stage,  with 
Mrs.  Howe  at  a  table  in  the  centre.  They  had 
generously  given  their  services  for  the  purpose  of 
the  Association.  Those  who  contributed  on  this 
occasion  were,  in  the  order  in  which  they  read, 
Samuel  L.  Clemens  (Mark  Twain),  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,  Edward  Everett  Hale,  Mrs.  Julia  Ward 
Howe,  Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich,  Thomas  Went- 
worth  Higginson,  William  Dean  Howells,  George 
William  Curtis,  and  James  Russell  Lowell." 

The  second  reading  was  held  in  Sanders 
Theatre,  Cambridge,  on  Longfellow's  birth- 
day, February  27,  1888,  and  was  enthusiasti- 
cally carried  out  by  Charlotte  Fiske  Bates 
(Mrs.  Roge). 

Francis  H.  Underwood,  United  States 
Consul  in  Glasgow,  undertook  the  third 
reading  in  1889.  It  was  held  in  the  "Queen's 
Rooms"  of  that  city,  and  was  a  gathering  of 
leaders  in  the  social  and  literary  world.  The 
Lord  Provost  of  Glasgow,  Sir  James  King, 
Bart.,  presided,  and  addresses  were  made  by 
Professor  Jebb  and  others. 

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FOLDOUT  BLANK 


Other  evidence  of  interest  was  the  forma- 
tion of  Longfellow  Memorial  Associations 
throughout  the  country. 

After  1889,  the  Association  was  not  active 
in  raising  funds.  The  considerable  sum  of 
money  invested  was  left  to  accumulate  until 
it  was  sufficient  to  cover  the  cost  of  a  Memo- 
rial Monument;  for  in  the  words  of  Dr.  Eliot, 

**They  were  sure  that  the  fame  of  Longfellow 
would  endure  without  any  local  monument,  and 
that  an  adequate  monument  would  be  appropri- 
ate and  welcome  after  the  lapse  of  a  whole  genera- 
tion, or  of  many  generations." 

That  this  belief  was  well  founded  has  been 
proved  through  all  subsequent  years,  as  I, 
a  resident  of  the  Park  can  testify,  by  the 
many  pilgrims  to  the  Longfellow  house  and 
Park  which  each  day  has  brought  and  still 
brings.  They  are  of  all  ages  and  of  all  races. 

During  the  late  war  it  was  touching  to  see 
the  reverent  interest  with  which  boys  on  their 
way  to  service  —  sailors  from  ships  in  the 
Harbor,  and  students  from  the  Cambridge 
Radio  School  —  came  to  gaze  at  the  monu- 
ment and  house.  To  many  of  them  Boston 
meant  Longfellow,  and  their  first  excursion 
was  to  his  home.  One  wondered  in  how  many 

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of  their  far-away  homes  might  still  be  hang- 
ing the  framed  certificate  or  the  picture  of  the 
Longfellow  house,  testifying  to  that  early 
membership. 

The  association  was  encouraged  in  its 
efforts  at  various  times  by  many  gifts  and  ex- 
pressions of  interest  from  unlooked  for 
sources,  of  money  and  of  material  relating  to 
the  life  and  work  of  Longfellow. 

In  1884,  a  generous  contribution  was  sent 
from  the  literary  men  of  Brazil,  instigated  by 
His  Majesty,  the  Emperor  Dom  Pedro,  who 
was  a  personal  acquaintance  and  ardent  ad- 
mirer of  Longfellow. 

Also  in  1884,  the  Association  received  from 
the  Longfellow  Memorial  Association  of  Lon- 
don, through  the  Hon.  Henry  O.  Houghton 
who  brought  them  to  this  country,  about  five 
hundred  valuable  autograph  letters  relating 
to  the  placing  in  Westminster  Abbey  of  the 
bust  of  Longfellow. 

Later  in  1884,  two  replicas  of  this  Westmin- 
ster Abbey  bust  were  sent  to  America.  One 
was  given  to  Harvard  College,  and  the  other 
to  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  in  Portland. 

In  1 910,  through  the  efforts  of  Professor 
Bliss  Perry,  a  gift  of  money  came  from  the 


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National  Longfellow  Association  in  Washing- 
ton. This  was  part  of  the  surplus  subscrip- 
tions after  the  Monument  to  Longfellow  in 
Washington  had  been  completed. 

The  most  encouraging  of  all  of  these  un- 
looked  for  gifts  was  made  in  1883,  i"  ^^^  ^^^Y 
beginning,  at  the  first  annual  meeting,  when 
the  children  of  Longfellow  presented  the 
Association  with  the  land  for  the  Park,  oppo- 
site the  Longfellow  House  and  reaching  from 
Brattle  Street  to  Mt.  Auburn  Street.  Four 
years  later,  in  1887,  they  doubled  their  gift  by 
adding  an  equal  amount  of  land,  opposite  the 
Park,  between  Mt.  Auburn  Street  and  the 
Charles  River;  but  this  land  was  taken  in  1894 
by  the  City  and  in  1921  was  made  a  part  of 
the  Metropolitan  Park  System,  though  with- 
out any  designation  to  mark  the  source  from 
which  it  came. 

In  offering  the  second  gift  of  land  to  the 
Association  on  behalf  of  his  sisters,  Alice, 
Annie  and  Edith,  his  brother  Charles  and 
himself,  Mr.  Ernest  W.  Longfellow  wrote: 

"Such  a  breathing  space  on  the  river  in  connec- 
tion with  the  playing  fields  of  the  College,  which 
my  father  was  so  instrumental  in  securing,  will  one 
day  be  a  great  boon  to  Cambridge  when  it  becomes 

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crowded,  and  would  be  a  better  monument  to  my 
father  and  more  in  harmony  with  his  character 
than  any  graven  image  that  could  be  erected." 

The  ** playing  fields"  referred  to  in  this 
prophetic  letter  were  the  seventy  acres  of 
land,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  river,  which 
Longfellow,  with  some  of  his  family  and 
friends,  as  far  back  as  1870,  twelve  years 
before  his  death,  had  deeded  to  Harvard  Col- 
lege. Although  a  considerable  area  of  this 
land  was  taken  by  the  Metropolitan  Park 
Commission  for  the  Speedway  Section  of  the 
Charles  River  Reservation,  yet  the  original 
Longfellow  gift  now  furnishes  about  three- 
fifths  of  the  sixty-one  acres  which  forms 
Soldiers'  Field,  the  athletic  grounds  of  Har- 
vard College,  thus  contributing  to  fulfill  the 
purpose  of  that  admirable  gift  to  the  College. 

In  this  connection,  it  is  appropriate  to  men- 
tion the  latest  gift  for  the  benefit  of  the  public 
made  by  the  Longfellow  family;  because 
through  it,  the  Association  has  been  enabled 
to  realize  their  ideal  for  the  final  memorial, 
an  ideal  quite  beyond  their  plan  at  the  outset, 
as  stated  in  the  recommendation  of  1882  al- 
ready quoted.  When  the  will  of  Longfellow's 
daughter,  Edith   (Mrs.  Richard  H.   Dana), 

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was  proved  in  191 5,  the  fact  was  disclosed 
that  as  a  further  means  of  honoring  their 
father,  the  children  of  Longfellow  had  pro- 
vided for  a  perpetual  trust  of  the  house  and 
grounds  where  he  had  lived. 

In  the  deed  of  this  remarkable  gift  stand 
these  simple  words: 

"to  be  held,  preserved,  maintained  and  managed 
for  the  benefit  of  the  public  as  a  specimen  of  the 
best  colonial  architecture  of  the  i8th  century, 
as  a  historical  monument  of  the  occupation  of 
the  house  by  George  Washington  during  the  siege 
of  Boston  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  as  a 
memorial  to  Henry  W.  Longfellow." 

The  trustees  named  are:  John  F.  Moors,  of 
Boston,  Fellow  of  Harvard  College;  Edmund 
M.  Parker  of  Cambridge,  Treasurer  of  the 
Longfellow  Memorial  Association;  and  Dud- 
ley L.  Pickman,  Jr.,  of  Boston.  Together  with 
the  deed  the  trustees  received  from  these 
donors  a  substantial  sum  of  money,  to  keep 
the  homestead  in  repair  and  pay  the  insur- 
ance and  the  taxes,  if  any. 

These  four  gifts  together  make  the  memo- 
rial to  the  nation's  best-love  poet,  a  truly 
noble  one.  The  gifts  cover  a  period  of  forty- 
five  years,  from  1870  to  191 5,  by  coincidence 

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just  equalling  the  number  of  years  Longfellow, 
by  living  in  it,  made  the  house  memorable. 
They  will  keep  open  and  unobstructed  for- 
ever a  stretch  of  land  nearly  three  quarters  of 
a  mile  in  length  from  the  Longfellow  House  to 
Brighton,  comprising  more  than  seventy-six 
acres,  larger  in  area  than  Boston  Common 
and  the  Public  Garden  combined. 

We  who  love  Cambridge  may  take  satis- 
faction in  the  thought  that  here  will  be  a  spot 
in  our  ever-changing  City  that  will  not  be 
changed;  and  that  future  generations  may 
find  rest  and  refreshment  just  as  we  do,  from 
the  sight  of  the  fine  old  house  among  its 
lilacs  on  the  one  hand,  and  on  the  other,  of 
the  sweep  of  the  Park,  the  Charles,  and  the 
Meadows  and  hills  beyond. 

In  1887,  the  Association  decided  to  have  the 
Park  laid  out.  They  consulted  the  eminent 
landscape  architect,  Charles  Eliot,  creator  of 
the  Boston  Metropolitan  Park  System.  He 
made  comprehensive  plans  which  were  unani- 
mously adopted  and  faithfully  adhered  to 
until  the  final  erection  of  the  memorial  in 
1 914,  when  the  landscape  architect,  Paul 
Frost,  conscientiously  adapted  them  to  meet 
some  changed  conditions  which  then  arose. 

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In  1907  the  Park  was  conveyed,  by  the 
Association,  to  the  City  of  Cambridge  which 
accepted  the  perpetual  care  of  it. 

In  1 91 2,  the  accumulated  funds  on  hand, 
were  sufficient  to  warrant  the  Association  in 
making  a  contract  for  the  Memorial  Monu- 
ment; and  the  Sculptor,  Daniel  Chester 
French,  was  asked  to  submit  for  approval, 
drawings,  and  a  model  for  a  monument. 

Mr.  French,  in  collaboration  with  Henry 
Bacon,  architect,  submitted  with  his  design 
for  the  monument  a  plan  for  the  reconstruc- 
tion of  the  stone  stairway  and  wall  between 
the  two  levels  of  the  Park  built  in  1889  by  the 
architect,  C.  Howard  Walker,  this  change 
being  necessary  in  order  to  place  the  monu- 
ment in  line  with  the  Longfellow  house  and 
the  Mt.  Auburn  Street  gate.  These  plans 
were  approved  by  the  Longfellow  family  and 
then  accepted  by  the  Association. 

But  it  was  not  until  two  years  later  that  the 
Association  was  to  attain  their  object  in  the 
finished  work  of  Art.  Then  on  a  beautiful 
Autumn  afternoon,  October  29,  1914,  they 
assembled  in  the  Park  with  members  of  the 
Longfellow  family  and  guests  of  honor  to  take 
part  in  the  unveiling  ceremony  of  the  Long- 
fellow Memorial  Monument. 

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The  dedicatory  address  was  made  by  the 
President  of  the  Association,  Dr.  Charles  W. 
Eliot,  who  said  as  he  stood  beside  the  monu- 
ment: 

"The  Longfellow  Memorial  Association  was  es- 
tablished shordy  after  the  death  of  Henry  Wads- 
worth  Longfellow  in  1882.  It  early  secured  this 
piece  of  land  between  Brattle  Street  and  Mt. 
Auburn  Street  on  which  we  are  standing,  and  later 
the  piece  across  Mt.  Auburn  Street  which  reaches 
to  the  Parkway  and  the  River.  In  his  own  life- 
time, Longfellow  and  a  few  friends  had  given  to 
Harvard  University  the  marshes  on  the  opposite 
side  of  the  River  to  be  kept  forever  open.  Thus, 
the  beautiful  prospect  from  the  southern  windows 
of  the  house  where  Washington  made  his  head- 
quarters, and  Longfellow  worked  through  many 
happy  years,  was  secured  in  perpetuity  for  the 
enjoyment  of  all  who  pass  along  these  two  much- 
travelled  thoroughfares,  or  visit  yonder  historic 
house  or  these  memorial  grounds. 

Having  accomplished  thus  much,  the  Associa- 
tion waited  until  the  money  in  their  hands  became, 
by  accumulation,  sufficient  to  cover  the  cost  of  an 
adequate  monument  in  stone  and  bronze.  They 
were  sure  that  the  fame  of  Longfellow  would 
endure  without  any  local  monument,  and  that  an 
adequate  monument  would  be  appropriate  and 
welcome  after  the  lapse  of  a  whole  generation,  or  of 
many  generations.  A  poet's  fame  shares  the  life  of 
the  language  in  which  he  speaks;  and   only  the 

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great  musical  composer  finds  a  more  universal 
acceptance.  Music,  indeed,  speaks  a  universal 
language. 

The  poet,  too,  is  the  great  dispenser  of  fame. 
In  the  poems  of  Longfellow  are  embalmed  the 
memories  of  many  precious  human  characters, 
both  real  and  imaginary,  and  of  striking  historical 
events  — both  sorrowful  and  glorious.  The  poet 
can  confer  lasting  remembrance  on  men  and 
things  worth  remembering,  as  either  warning  or 
example.  It  is  the  poet  that  best  immortalizes 
mortals. 

In  teaching  mankind,  the  poet,  like  the  painter 
or  the  sculptor,  has  the  advantage  of  putting  his 
lessons  into  exquisite  forms  which  survive  because 
of  their  own  intrinsic  excellence  and  loveliness. 
The  genius  of  Longfellow  was  always  exerted  in 
defense  or  furtherance  of  things  good,  pure,  just, 
and  merciful.  He  taught  love,  good  will,  simplic- 
ity, and  candor,  and  courage  and  fortitude  in  sup- 
port of  liberty  and  justice.  His  poems  depict  many 
of  the  sorrows  and  tragedies  of  the  individual  life, 
and  of  the  life  of  the  race;  but  through  all  his  writ- 
ings there  gleams  faith  in  the  ultimate  prevailing 
of  good  over  evil,  joy  over  sorrow,  and  life  over 
death. 

The  monument  we  are  about  to  unveil  is  the 
work  of  an  eminent  Sculptor  who  commemorates 
a  Poet  by  setting  before  coming  generations  his 
features  in  bronze,  and  the  figures  in  marble  of 
six  characters  made  familiar  to  millions  of  readers 
by  his  verse.    A  commemorative  purpose  could 

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not  be  more  appropriately  or  expressively  executed. 
One  fine  art  praises  and  adorns  another. 

I  invite  Priscilla  Thorpe,  a  granddaughter  of 
Longfellow,  to  unveil  the  monument. 

Mr.  Mayor,  the  Longfellow  Memorial  Associa- 
tion now  presents  this  fine  monument  to  the 
City  of  Cambridge,  in  full  faith  that  the  City  will 
preserve  and  keep  these  grounds,  this  bust,  and 
these  marble  figures  as  a  worthy  memorial  of  a 
famous  man  whose  life-work  makes  Cambridge  a 
precious  place  not  only  to  those  who  live  in  it,  but 
to  millions  of  persons  who  have  never  set  foot 
within  its  borders.  The  value  of  a  city  as  a  place 
to  live  in  is  determined  generation  after  generation 
not  only  by  its  productive  industries  and  its  com- 
merce, but  by  its  churches,  schools,  and  parks,  by 
the  memories  of  great  and  good  lives  lived  there, 
and  by  the  grateful  remembrance  in  new  genera- 
tions of  good  influences  which  thence  proceeded. 
So  long  as  the  City  shall  stand,  Cambridge  will  be 
fairer,  and  dearer  to  mankind  because  Longfellow 
lived  here." 

In  reply,  Mayor  T.  W.  Good  made  a  short 
appreciative  speech  of  acceptance  in  behalf 
of  the  City. 

When  the  covering  was  drawn  aside  a  bronze 
portrait-bust  of  Longfellow  was  revealed.  It 
rests  on  a  marble  pedestal,  standing  against  a 
broad  background  of  Tennessee  marble  four- 
teen feet  wide  and  twelve  feet  high,  built  into 

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the  terrace  wall  of  the  upper  Park  forming  a 
protecting  canopy  slightly  arched  above  and 
supported  by  a  marble  column  at  each  end. 
On  the  face  of  this  protecting  canopy  are  six 
figures  cut  in  relief,  familiar  to  all  readers  of 
Longfellow  —  Miles  Standish,  Sandalphon, 
The  Village  Blacksmith, The  Spanish  Student, 
Evangeline,  and  Hiawatha. 

The  monument  stands  in  a  small  green, 
sunken  garden,  fenced  by  a  low  stone  coping 
and  hedged  in  by  tall  arbor  vitae  trees. 
Three  stone  steps  at  the  entrance  lead  down 
to  the  grassy  floor  of  the  garden  where  inter- 
secting gravel  walks  end  in  stone  seats  on 
either  side. 

Here  the  visitor  to  the  memorial  may  sit  in 
peace  and  retirement  to  study  its  beauty, 
shut  in  from  the  surrounding  Park  and  ever 
encroaching  City. 


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